Glencore is one of the world's most tight-lipped companies. Odd, then, that gaffe-a-minute chairman Simon Murray is moonlighting as a "senior adviser" to GPW... more
Rupert Murdoch's global media empire was plunged further into crisis today amid claims of a 'black ops' unit at Fox News and illegal computer hacking by one of the tycoon's US firms... more
Feature: While the scandal continues to expose murky relations between a media empire, politicians and police, Nick Curtis details the unexpected fallout, from custard pies to leather trousers... more
Rupert Murdoch attacked 'paranoia' in Britain against his bid to expand his media empire when he last gave evidence to a parliamentary committee... more
As the media mogul's family gather in London to offer support, there was one person missing - his daughter Elisabeth, who was said to be on holiday with her husband Matthew Freud... more
The reaction to the acquisition of the Huffington Post by AOL has run from sceptical to enthusiastic, with more than a dash of wonderment at the remarkable personal story behind the Post's founder... more
Barack Obama has shared his real beef about the office of President with his vulpine enemies at Fox News. He complains that he is one of the few men obliged to watch the Super Bowl while wearing a jacket.... more
Media analysis: It is becoming more and more obvious that, even if the wheels are not coming off News Corp, the tyres are going bald, the brakes need attention and the company is stuck in reverse gear... more
A foreign company taking over our postal service wouldn't overhaul its monarchical trappings - but does the Queen really want to keep up her side of the association?... more
Noel Biderman, head of the world’s largest infidelity website which launches in London this week, explains why he’d rather cheat on his wife than get divorced
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Recession? What recession? There were no empty seats at the British Council for Offices annual black tie shindig which filled the Great Room of the Grosvenor House to bursting... more
The feud between the White House and Fox News intensified today after the channel found a video in which President Obama's communications director Anita Dunn says of his election campaign: "Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything we didn't absolutely control."... more
IT’S not often that City Spy is reduced to tears but Lord Bilimoria’s travails after putting his Cobra Beer business into a pre-pack administration (the brewer has been sold to Molson Coors, Bilimoria keeps 49.9% and most of the creditors who are owed £71 million are out of pocket), provoke great waves of sympathy
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Last week, a British newspaper ran a front-page story about a remark by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama's new Secretary of State, during her confirmation hearings for the job... more
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